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The Development of Siberia Based on the Cultures of Indigenous People and Newcomers

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Humans in the Siberian Landscapes

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Siberia is an integral system, in which many factors create a unique natural and cultural environment. In this chapter, the Siberian region is considered as a single socio-ecological system. The focus on the natural resource management practices makes it possible to find standard features in indigenous and other peoples’ cultural models, despite differences in the natural conditions of their living, worldviews, and value orientations. The study’s aim is the generalization and typological analysis of physical, spiritual, and mental ways of exploring the space by peoples of Siberia. The study’s basis consists of modern theoretical concepts, field expeditionary research, and the implementation of applied academic projects of the chapter’s authors. The interrelation of natural landscapes and forms of traditional natural resource management, auxiliary crafts and household traditions, living environment, and social structure; mythological, ethnic, symbolic images of spaces, and spiritual culture of peoples of the Siberian region are investigated. The geography of research covers the territory of Gorny Altai, Irkutsk Oblast, Transbaikalia, and Yakutia. The general research field and working methodology are important: adaptation to the natural environment, attitude to the territory of residence, as well as analysis of ethnographic, linguistic, folklore, and musical materials. Among such integrative scientific tasks is studying the ethnocultural landscape of the Turks, Evenks, and Old Believers’ people. This kind of ethnocultural landscape is being formed under various natural zones, spiritual models, nature management practices, and a special living environment.

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The study was conducted with the financial support of a grant from the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education (project “The latest trends in the development of human sciences and society in the context of the process of digitalization and new social problems and threats: interdisciplinary approach”, agreement No. 075-15-2020-798).

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  1. Saint Petersburg State University, Institute of Philosophy; Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Science, 7-9, University emb., 199034, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Boris V. Markov

  2. Department of Hunting and Bioecology of the Institute for Natural Resource Management, Irkutsk State Agricultural University named after A. A. Ezhevsky, Molodezhny settlement, 664038, Irkutsk region, Irkutsk district, Russia

    Svetlana A. Kozlova

  3. Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ave. Academician Lavrentiev, 17, 630090, Novosibirsk, Russia

    Natal’ya I. Shietova

  4. Ethnography of Russian North East Peoples Sector, Institute for Humanities Research and Indigenous Studies of the North, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), 1 Petrovskogo str., 677027, Yakutsk, Russia

    Nataliya K. Danilova

  5. Institute of Geography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1 Ulan-Batorskaya st., 664033, Irkutsk, Russia

    Tatyana N. Shekhovtsova

  6. St. Petersburg State University, Iskrovski ave., 10-2-38, 193318, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Dmitry A. Yarochkin

  7. School of Economy and Management, Harbin Engineering University, Nangang xiaoqu, Nanatong dajie, 145, Harbin, China

    Alina N. Steblyanskaya

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Markov, B.V. et al. (2022). The Development of Siberia Based on the Cultures of Indigenous People and Newcomers. In: Bocharnikov, V.N., Steblyanskaya, A.N. (eds) Humans in the Siberian Landscapes. Springer Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90061-8_17

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